Quotes About Experience

there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

She had no recollection of crossing a line that drove her to desire a woman's body. With Lorna she found herself already on the other side of it.

Y, así, esos ocho meses quedan atrás, no tardan en difuminarse, en olvidarse, como esa prenda de ropa que nos ponemos para una celebración especial o que pertenece ya a otra temporada y que con el tiempo acaba resultando engorrosa, prescindible.

Una lingua nuova è quasi una vita nuova, grammatica e sintassi ti rifondo, scivoli dentro un'altra logica e un altro sentimento.

Rapidamente, simultaneamente, ele se apaixona por Maxine, pela casa e pelo modo de vida de Gerald e Lydia, pois conhecê-la e amá-la é conhecer e amar todas essas coisas.

It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet to experience any of those things.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri

Books come to stand for various episodes in our lives, for certain idealisms, follies of belief, moments of love. Along the way they accumulate our marks, our stains, our innocent abuses—they come to wear our experience of them on their covers and bindings like wrinkles on our skin.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.